DA: Westchester Man Swindled Via Baseball Venture

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SCARSDALE, N.Y. (AP) — A man got investors to back his plan for a children’s baseball facility, then embezzled tens of thousands of dollars to pay his mortgage, prosecutors said.

Frank Schwall reeled in nearly $160,000 from investors to develop an indoor baseball training center for children, getting donations as big as $50,000 partly by falsely claiming he’d contributed $200,000 of his own and had a site lined up, Westchester County prosecutors said Wednesday.

Most of the backers’ cash ended up in Schwall’s personal bank accounts, and some paid the mortgage on his Scarsdale home, prosecutors said.

Schwall, 46, pleaded not guilty Wednesday to grand larceny and other charges.